Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[member 142084]

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I wonder if its insect protien? Mine only get worms when I move the water bins, or whatever they can catch in their large pen.

 

[member 142084]

Quote: lol yeah ya know it. It's not like you cant wash it off. And bugs touch everything, so what! there are people who eat insects intentionally sheesh.

 

[Weirdness555]

In Guyana (sp?) they pluck flying ants out of the air and they kids eat them like sweets.

 

[Bens-Hens]

Hi Aussie. One country I dearly would like to visit. The airfare there is so high. Maybe I should swim? Anywho, I live in central Texas, lots and lots of days 100 degrees and up to 112 once! My poor girls pant all summer. I don't like to be gone from home much in the middle of the day or when it's hottest, because I like to be home to spray down the trees where they hang out in the shade. It wets the earth and the wet branches sorta act like a swamp cooler as the breeze goes thru them, (when there is a breeze!) And I have a little fan in the hen house too. I also have an oil pan for catching the oil when you change your car's oil, full of water and they occasionally stand in it to cool their feet. I also have something called a "mister" that connects to the hose and sprays a fine mist of water that they will sit under. I hope you can do any of these to help cool your chooks. Is it summer there now?? LOVIN' CHICKENS, beverly evans from Austin, the live music captital of the world.

Hi Beverly,

I think this may have been addressed to me. I have been away traveling and not had a chance to go back through. Thanks for the tips, we will come up with some ideas, mostly based around extra shade and a larger water bill! Ice in their water frozen fruit and a sprinkler in the run will probably be the first things to try on those hot days.

 

[RachaelS]

LOVIN' CHICKENS, beverly evans from Austin, the live music captital of the world.

Hey there! I am in Austin Also!!! LOVING the weather for the past 2 weeks!

 

[Inconcheepable]

"Duck eggs contain malaria"... What?

 

[BarefootMtnGal]

When my friend had her first batch of layers in her newly built coop, there was one White Rock hen who was at the bottom of the pecking order... two RIReds were the culprits. She was scrawny and horribly hen pecked. She was named Henrietta. My friend separated her from the others, having Henrietta live in the screened in porch, a few feet from the coop. In cold weather, Henrietta would be invited into the kitchen and placed in a large Rubbermaid tub in the den, with shavings, food and water, and get a TV and fireplace for the evening.
After the culprits were "invited to dinner", and a new batch of chicks were adopted, Henrietta became the brooding hen.

A few years before she began having hens, my friend said she'd never have brown eggs again, because she had found a blood spot in one.

 

[cassie]

Someone ask me, "if it came down to going hungry or eating your chickens would you eat them? My answer was, "Of course I wouldn't eat them, I would save them for the eggs, a constant supply of food." and their reply was, "Really? There is no protein in eggs, you would need the meat to survive." I told them if it came down to it, that they better stear clear of my chickens. SMH

I do have to admit though, that after we got our chickens this summer, it took me quite a while to eat one of the eggs. When I was younger I had a bad experience with a fertilized egg. I still have to crack them in a separate bowl, but I am eating them now.

My aunt always cracked eggs in a bowl before adding them to whatever. She did that with both the eggs her hens produced and the eggs that came from the store.

 

[7 Biddies]

lol  yeah the eyes balls or chic thing has turned many off. but if you gather them every day to every other day... that will never happen. Ant if you find a stray egg and don't know how long its been.. then don't eat it. And you can always candle to double check.

I don't know if they're *stronger*, but they're much richer. You have to get used to them. But, for baking, they can't be beat! Goose eggs, too.

 

[Weirdness555]

When I say stronger I mean richer, to me that's the same thing.